USDA Crop insurance deadline set for September 30

USDA’s Risk Management Agency said it continues to see increased participation in the Multi-Peril Insurance program for crops in Washington.

Sept. 30 is the sales closing date for several crops in the Pacific Northwest. Among them, all wheat, Fall Planted Barley with Winter Coverage and Fall Planted Dry Peas and Lentils with Winter Coverage.

RMA says last year’s rollout of the Common Crop Insurance Policy regulations, COMBO, fundamentally revising and creating one insurance plan out of four similar plans of insurance, was a success. An additional 109,641 acres of northwest wheat were insured w...